August 8, 2019
CityLab, Andrew Small, August 7, 2019- Dropping in: President Trump is visiting Dayton and El Paso today after the mass shootings in those cities. As with so many things related to this administration, these presidential appearances in sites of tragedy are unusually fraught. Trump’s arrival in the Ohio city on Wednesday …
August 8, 2019
Fort Myers Beach Observer, Jordan Hester, August 7, 2019- Fort Myers Beach efforts to ban the use of a popular herbicide will go back for some additional tweaking but will advance to a second public hearing. Fort Myers Beach Town Council wants to prohibit the use, if not the sale, …
August 7, 2019
Next City, Zoe Sullivan, August 7, 2019- In late July, a Florida county circuit court struck down some of the penalties added in 2011 to Florida’s law banning local governments from regulating firearms. Those penalties included the ability to remove local elected officials from office, fining them up to $5,000 …
August 7, 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ashley Murray and Molly McCafferty, August 6, 2019- Mayor Bill Peduto and national gun-control advocate Shannon Watts had a message for state and federal lawmakers Tuesday: Vote on stalled gun-control bills in the next 30 days. The message comes after a deadly weekend of mass shootings in El Paso, …
August 6, 2019
ZCommunications, Rebekah Barber, August 5, 2019- The Fight For $15 movement has won some important victories since it was launched seven years ago. Just last month, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to raise the current $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, though the proposal is expected …